Non-equilibrium dynamics in chemical systems. Proceedings of the International Symposium, Bordeaux, France, September 3-7, 1984
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Non-equilibrium dynamics in chemical systems. Proceedings of the International Symposium, Bordeaux, France, September 3-7, 1984
zbMATH Open document ID: 0567.58001
published in: Springer Series in Synergetics
publication date: 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: The study of chemical systems under conditions removed from the thermodynamic equilibrium when the kinetic laws are nonlinear constitutes today one of the most fascinating research fields for chemist-physicists, physicists and also for mathematicians. Until about twenty years ago we regarded chemical reactions as the result of the collisions among the molecules in their disorderly movement. This is true but only when the reactions occur in the neighbourhood of the thermodynamic equilibrium. In conditions removed from the thermodynamic equilibrium when obtaining the Bolousov-Zhabotinskij (B.Z.) reaction, which behaves like a chemical clock, we are obliged to think that among the intermediate molecular species a perfect coherence is achieved. Beginning in 1978 and up to the present a great number of chemical reactions have been obtained, in which the concentration of the intermediate species has periodic oscillations of a limit-cycle type. This book consists of seven parts structured on different aspects of the behaviour of the chemical systems maintained far from the thermodynamic equilibrium. The first part comprises the plenary conference ''Spatial and temporal configurations in systems far from the equilibrium''. The main idea which pervades the conference is that the appearance of the spatial and temporal structures is a general phenomenon. These structures appear in chemical optics (laser), hydrodynamic systems, in electronic, solid, acoustic devices and others on the condition that the systems are maintained far from the thermodynamic equilibrium. The second part, entitled ''Oscillatory reactions and modeling problems'', as the title indicates, contains papers which deal with the periodic oscillations of the intermediate species concentration. The papers present both the experimental and the theoretical results of the chemical oscillations. As the works in the second part only take into account the periodic oscillations of the concentrations, those in the third…
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58-06
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 00B25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92Exx
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58-01
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 80A10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 80A30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 74A15
zbMATH DE Number: 3905489
zbMATH Keywords: Non-equilibrium dynamics
zbMATH Keywords: Chemical systems
zbMATH Keywords: Proceedings
zbMATH Keywords: Symposium
zbMATH Keywords: Bordeaux
zbMATH Keywords: chemical systems
zbMATH Keywords: thermodynamic equilibrium
zbMATH Keywords: periodic oscillations of a limit-cycle type
zbMATH Keywords: chemical optics
zbMATH Keywords: laser
zbMATH Keywords: hydrodynamic systems
zbMATH Keywords: electronic
zbMATH Keywords: solid acoustic devices
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